Please find below a list of speakers and timetable for a seminar series on
refugee communities in the UK being organised by the Information Centre
about Asylum and Refugees (ICAR) on behalf of the Institute of Commonwealth
Studies (ICS) in London as part of their regular Tuesday afternoon human
rights lecture feature.
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Human rights seminar series - Tuesdays at 5pm
Institute of Commonwealth Studies:
28 Russell Square (Russell Square tube)
London, WC1B
Menzies Room
'Experience of exile: Refugee communities in the UK'
Date, Title, Presenter:
28th January, Refugee Communities in the UK: their role and development,
Vaughan Jones - Director of Praxis
11th February, Working with refugee communities - the realities of community
development, Maknun Ashami, co-author of 'Refugee Settlement: Can
communities cope?' 2002, and Loan Anh Nuygen - Development Officer - Refugee
Action
25th February, The Mobilisation and Participation of Refugee Communities in
Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Dr. Khalid Koser - Migration Research Unit,
University College London
4th March, Ethiopian and Tamil communities in the UK: the experience of
exile, to be followed by a short film on the Tamil community in the UK, Alem
Gebrehiwot - Coordinator of the Ethiopian Community Centre in the UK and Dr
Kingsley - South London Tamil Welfare Group
11th March, New identities in the diaspora: Somalis and Kurds in London,
comparative issues, Dr David Griffiths - Senior Researcher, School of
Planning, Oxford Brookes University
18th March, Bosnian refugees in the UK: questioning community, Dr Lynette
Kelly - Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick
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